Holy Order of MANS

In the late 1970s, when young and naïve, I was initiated in the Holy Order of MANS (abbreviated as HOOM or HOM), It was a mystery school founded by Father Paul (ex-engineer Earl Blighton) based on an idea Blighton and others called the Science of Mans. MANS is an acronym for the Greek words:
Mysterion
Agape
Nous
Sophia

It was a time of grace, energy and Spirit. Although much of the language and symbolism seems archaic, to this day, I remain grateful.

“Good evening, this is Father Blighton speaking, and I’m going to talk to you tonight on the ascension…
The ascension is not a mystical mystery but a living part of man’s life, and as with anything else a person would seek to accomplish, there is a preparation necessary… epigenesis.
As one gains a certain level of mind control and acceptance of Jesus and the great light through him, we may attain a state of illumination. And this is something which I’m sure you all understand. And yet, I wonder if you do? To you, you have experienced it, but what have you experienced? You have the experience, the first seed-light, the starting of illumination. The full reality, the full growth of light within you, will take a little time and a greater change. And this is what we are bringing you towards, the great light body which you will eventually attain down through the years…

“All those who only half see through what their half physically blinded eyes do see will die." The actual act of ascension or, in other words, the point where you ascend, is one of the greatest simplicities of all the mysteries. Ascending from this realm of vibration into another is quite like a person walking from one room into another. To walk into another room you must know of its existence and its existence holds just as great a reality as the room you’re in. When a person passes taking his physical body with him from one level of vibration to another, the material substance of your body is transmuted into the pure state of its original substance which is energy…

The triangle is the representation of complete harmony. This reality is seen in the macrocosm as well as the microcosm, through the unity of opposites as the triangle… triangular symbols. The two different vibrations in a scale may be in harmony with each other but they are never complete in themselves and express no definite character. For instance, two sounds or two colors vibrating in agreement with each other in their respective fields are similar to two dimensions in space without the third. Two parallel lines have their beginning and end nowhere. It is necessary to establish a relationship to a third quantity, which brings the two together in a complete unit. The number three represents the complete form of harmony and this whole section can be summed up as an illustration through matter of the working of the law of the triangle.

Harmony cannot change process, progress in the space or time, or evolve without a definite scheme based on law. It cannot use the scale which was the movement of ascending or descending without definite law equal to its own law in importance which governs the whole. This brings us to the subject of rhythm, which is a fundamental principle of simple and compound population or populace, without which all creation would be in chaos. Volumes have been written in the explanation of each of these scales or laws or scales of harmony or rhythm. Basic explanation of rhythm is related to periodicity. Motion when measured and proportioned through the cycle of periodicity shows rhythm. Motion affected by time can only give degree of speed; slow, medium or fast. When time is broken up according to the law of proportion, then applied to motion, we have rhythmic motion, what is referred to as time in its periodicity…

All matter, including our bodies, is under the control of the mind of man, so thus the act of ascension shows the complete control of the forces and of physical matter.
As our Lord Jesus said unto us all, "All these things I do, so shall ye do and even greater than these.”
Good night, my dear students and we will have a new lesson next week. We are going to take up some things on heaven and hell.  And now may the Christ and his light be with you.”

• All things are possible in the spirit. For God created all things through the spirit. Therefore all things are possible in the Spirit.
• Seek the way of the golden dawn. Watch for the rise of the sun, and it is rising in your life and in many. And they shall come in great flocks to you, seeking your help, arid your healing.
• Trust me, I am with you. Be not afraid for all things will be given. Let the spirit move as a thrashing machine before you, reaping the grains of the harvest that ye shall winnow and bring unto the barns for the winter wheat. For the winter will come when man shall be without.
• And as I said - "Ten thousand shall fall on thy right hand and ten thousand on thy left, and not a hair of thy head shall be touched".
• Go now, be not sorrowful. Be not without joy. For the time of peace is coming, even though you see the clouds of war - the time when the dove shall come. And it shall have a place to live.
• From day to day just go forth and do that which thou art bid, and thy heart shall be full of joy and thy body shall be full of youth, and thou shalt reap the harvest of many ages.
• For he who follows the Order of the Golden Cross has emancipated himself through my Word and my Law. For you are my elect.
• He who enters the priesthood has left the wheel of Karma, as you call it, but has sacrificed himself that he shall be bound to the priesthood.
• For he that has received the Light of my Son and works with him shall see me in manifestation at some level of the heavens.
• For I say unto you that you shall be known as ministers, or Masters of the Law — priests of the gospel - and thou shalt be known, you, as Master of the Work, for this I have given unto you.
• For let him who is my Priest move forward step by step, without hesitancy, and seek not the counsel of men, but of the Holy Elders, for I say unto you, man would only defile thee, and bring thee to naught.
• But if thou seek only the knowledge of the Father within thee, or of the Council of the Elders, thou shalt never come to naught.
• She that has reached My priesthood, honors Me, because the Host is My servant and I am their Guide.
• Let every man be a school unto himself, that has accepted my Priesthood.
• For he that accepts me accepts great wisdom.
• For I say unto you, in this day man shall fulfill all the Law, if he enters into the ministry of God.
• Seek not mentalities, but spiritualities. For he who would follow me must give up his all, and this all means all - mind, body, and spirit.”

~ Father Blighton

"In 1988, after little more than two decades of existence, HOOM dissolved. Many former members and hierarchy joined a non-canonical group of the Orthodox Church under the name Christ the Saviour Brotherhood (CSB). During the 1990s to about 2000, many members of CSB joined canonical jurisdictions of the Orthodox Church." ~ orthodoxwiki.org